Crowdstrike Bad update made less than 1 percent of PCs crash Microsoft issued a fix

The fix by Microsoft is here

[davidsradioroom]

The only way to keep your computer 100% safe is not connecting it to the internet.

[ethimself]

Surprised only 8 million computers world wide. Not many large international companies it would take for this amount.

[river]

In my opinion, the number of systems affected isn't so much the issue as which ones (being critical structures) and the fact this happened at all. Of course it wouldn't reach more than 1% because cloudstrike is aimed at larger businesses than the common user like Avast or something. That doesn't change the fact that the damages and money lost from this is far greater than if even an equivalent amount of average users were affected.

[noelpeterson]

I heard that Linux was also affected by a CrowdStrike update in April this year causing all Debian Linux servers to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot.

[vadec]

And I read a news article says Canada not very good with cyber problems.

[franciscohorna]

im not affected here cause i dont use crowdstrike here

[davinp]

It affected mostly corporate PCs that used crowdstrike.

[ethimself]

Curious - Day ago or so in youtube I had an instant Black Screen, confused, yep. Seems like I fixed it within 30 minutes. Any idea why this happened as I don't ever remember this happening before - went online in 05

[aixtom]

Yeah. Not really a Windows problem, more a "relying on IT" problem. I prefer Linux personally, because I have greater control, and know what I'm doing. 95% of people probably just want their stuff to work, not dive to deep into the specifics on who to trust on what update when.

After ~40 years in IT, I wonder if the ever-increasing layers of more libraries, more services, more abstraction layers, more virtualization, etc... will one day cause the whole house of cards to come tumbling down because someone pulled at the right card at the bottom. For example the time Facebook employees couldn't get into the building to fix a problem, because the affected servers also managed the access to the

When I imagine a root DNS service going down, and all tools to access to fix that root DNS service depend on that DNS to work, and taking *all* web services across the world down with

At least I still will be able to watch all the movies on my local NAS, as long as there is power available. (Which might very well not be the case, depending on what services the power company runs where....)

[JxH]

Almost 100% of the world's Windows PCs are owned and controlled by people that have utterly failed (LOL) to sign-up to Crowdstrike and pay the US$185 per month user fee (per PC). I include our household in that majority group, in that we have failed to pay $185 x about 10 PCs per month = $1850 per month; I wonder why? This is the precise reason is why so relatively few PCs were impacted, "only" 8 or 9 million.

The so-called Microsoft "fix" (very poor word choice) is just advice: boot into Safe mode and delete the offending Crowdstrike file.

[phillippejean-marie]

What is with Lenox fanboys hating on windows I use windows, iOS iPhone and I have a Roku tv that runs on Lenox I don’t hate either OS just because I don’t use a Mac doesn’t mean I hate Mac’s it’s just that Mac’s and I don’t get along

What is with the war on all of these services windows Apple Lenox etc.

[jlam]

Are you saying 1% of PC's on earth? Get real bro this is enterprise level software and it only affected businesses. It was bad. It required touching every single PC that blue screened. No remoting in because you had to boot into safe mode to do it. Delta is still reeling.